Trump pardons Silk Road drug website founder Ross Ulbricht

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  • Reliability

    70% ReliableGood

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  • Politician Portrayal

    25% Positive

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

74% : "I just called the mother of Ross William Ulbricht to let her know that in honor of her and the Libertarian movement, which supported me so strongly, it was my pleasure to have just signed a full and unconditional pardon of her son, Ross," Trump wrote on Truth Social.
53% : Trump, 78, had announced his plans to pardon Ulbricht during a speech at the Libertarian National Convention in May 2024 while he was on the campaign trail.
51% : Trump has made expansive use of his pardon powers during his first three days in office, clearing the sentences of more than 1,400 people involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
24% : President Trump pardoned Ross Ulbricht, the founder of notorious 2010s drug trafficking website Silk Road, on Tuesday.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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